Surveillance video released this week reveals the moment an off-duty Chicago police officer sitting in his parked car opened fire on an unarmed teen last year.

Sgt. Khalil Muhammed shot 18-year-old Ricardo Hayes — who is developmentally disabled — multiple times in August 2017, wounding the teen in his arm and chest.

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In the video released Tuesday by the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, Hayes can be seen running from one end of the street to the other, then stopping after he spots a vehicle pulling up alongside him.

Moments later, Muhammed opens fire, and the teen runs in the opposite direction.

ACLU of Illinois sued the city of Chicago and is pushing for officers to be trained on how to interact with people with disabilities, saying that Hayes “should never have been shot.”

In a statement, Karen Sheley, director of police practices for the ACLU of Illinois, questioned why it took more than a year for the video to be released.

“The video shows both that there was no justification for the officer to shoot him and that initial stories told by CPD officials about the shooting — that the ‘encounter escalated’ — were false,” Sheley wrote.

Muhammad has been suspended with pay and gave up his badge and gun as an investigation into the shooting continues.

Hayes has filed a lawsuit against Muhammad and the city of Chicago.

“We still have many unanswered questions,” Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson said in a press release.